Hiking

We were in New Mexico in late October 2017 and we’d been to Bosque Del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, a hundred miles south of Albuquerque on I-25, where we’d observed migrating Sandhill Cranes and Snow Geese (which we’ve also seen frequently in autumn north of Seattle foraging in Skagit Valley farm fields). We had stayed … Read more Rock City, Silver City

In early August 2006, after spending two nights in Edinburgh, the eight of us piled into two rental cars and headed west, trying to stay on the left side of the road, through Glasgow, north to Loch Lamond, and on to Inverary Castle, the seat of Clan Campbell and home of Torquhil Campbell, the Duke … Read more Ancient Kilmartin Glen

The eastern Colorado plains is a series of huge stationary swells moving west toward the Front Range, up and down, up and down. Where the swells meet the Rockies, they bunch up into shorter, steeper waves. In Colorado Springs the rock waves break into pieces against the mass of Pike Peak, sandstone exposed and standing … Read more Red Rock Canyon: Landfill to Park

Many times during the last ice age catastrophic floods unleashed by failing ice dams that created Lake Missoula in Montana raged across central Washington in waves 700’ high, scouring out canyons, redirecting rivers, creating huge scablands and moving huge Rocky Mountain boulders hundreds of miles west, some into the upper Willamette Valley in Oregon. J. … Read more Ice Age Floods and Steamboat Rock